{"id":11996,"date":"2019-05-28T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=11996"},"modified":"2019-05-28T14:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T09:12:28","slug":"world-health-organisation-drops-transgender-from-list-of-mental-health-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/world-health-organisation-drops-transgender-from-list-of-mental-health-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organisation drops transgender from list of mental health disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu (Pahichan) May 28 – In a move that many hope will “liberate” trans and non-binary people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has passed legislation which no longer categorises being transgender as a mental health disorder.<\/p>\n

The decision was made on Friday May 25 by WHO’s governing body,\u00a0the World Health Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe World Health Organisation\u2019s removal of \u2018gender identity disorder\u2019 from its diagnostic manual will have a liberating effect on transgender people worldwide,\u201d said Graeme Reid, LGBTIQ+ rights director at\u00a0Human Rights Watch.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGovernments should swiftly reform national medical systems and laws that require this now officially outdated diagnosis.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cTransgender people are fighting stigma and discrimination that can be traced in part to medical systems that have historically diagnosed expressions of gender non-conformity as a mental pathology.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s the stigma, discrimination, and bullying – and not anything inherent in gender nonconformity – that can inflict mental health problems in transgender people.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, it wasn’t all good news, with intersex advocates slamming WHO for its updated International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), which includes language describing intersex variations as \u201cdisorders of sex development.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u00a0joint statement<\/a>\u00a0from 65 intersex groups and organisations insists the language “will cause continuing harm to people born with variations of sex characteristics.”<\/p>\n

The statement adds that \u201csome current materials in the ICD-11 Foundation are associated with medical procedures that fail to meet human rights norms,\u201d referencing surgeries commonly performed on intersex children.<\/p>\n

Additionally, gaming communities were up in arms after WHO included “gaming addiction” as an official illness for the first time.<\/p>\n

Source : www.sbs.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu (Pahichan) May 28 – In a move that many hope will “liberate” trans and non-binary people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has passed legislation which no longer categorises being transgender as a mental health disorder.
\nThe decision was made on Friday May 25 by WHO’s governing body,\u00a0the World Health Assembly.
\n\u201cThe World Health Organisation\u2019s removal of \u2018gender identity disorder\u2019 from its diagnostic manual will have a liberating effect on transgender people worldwide,\u201d said Graeme Reid, LGBTIQ+ rights director at\u00a0Human Rights Watch.
\n\u201cGovernments should swiftly reform national medical systems and laws that require …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,10,621,490,11],"tags":[204,1159,458,1829,1009],"class_list":["post-11996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-education","category-health","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-intersex","tag-lgbtiq","tag-transgender","tag-who","tag-world-health-organisation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}